Merrill water rates to rise 13 percent

8:11 PM,
Nov. 1, 2013

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| By Kevin Murphy
For Daily Herald Media

While the Merrill City Council discusses increasing property taxes 14 percent in 2014, the Wisconsin Public Service Commission this week approved a 13 percent increase in water rates for typical water utility residential customers.

The water rate increase mirrors a 13 percent increase authorized in December 2010 and is needed to finance a $2.2 million manganese removal project the utility installed in 2012, City Administrator Kathy Unertl said.

R. Wayne Plant of Merrill wrote the PSC last month that his water remains unimproved despite the newly installed equipment. ...